SUPPORTERS of a wannabe model who murdered her boyfriend have sparked outrage by calling for an appeal.

Caroline Igoe is serving at least 20 years for blasting Martyn Barclay to death with his own gun outside her family home in Edinburgh.

The 34-year-old was jailed for life in 2010 for shooting Martyn, 26, in the head after he turned up drunk at the house in the Inch area.

Now friends and family are trying to drum up public support for an appeal for the convicted killer through a Facebook page, an online poll and another internet site, claiming she was never allowed to tell her full story in court.

Igoe’s parents Margaret and Joseph have posted on the pages, claiming their daughter is innocent. But there’s been an angry backlash from bloggers, including one of Martyn’s relatives.

Carolyn Igoe pictured with Martyn Barclay (Image: Internet)

One post said: “I am related to Martyn and was in court every day.

“Get your facts right. She is guilty as hell. She is a nutjob and deserves to be locked up. In fact that is too good for her.”

Facebook page The Case of Caroline Igoe claims she was convicted on circumstantial evidence and wasn’t given a proper defence case.

It says: “Caroline deserves to have her full case heard in the courts. She is not asking that she is simply freed. She is asking that people really look at her case and that the courts will do the same thing.”

An account of the night of the murder from “Caroline’s side” has also been posted, claiming Martyn had already been shot when she went out to find him lying in the street.

Connected website The Caroline Igoe Case offers the public the chance to vote on whether the mum should be given an appeal – a decision which lies with the courts. The results show 69 per cent so far agree she should.

But another blogger wrote: “I find it hilarious how the comments I have made, factual ones, have all been deleted by the deluded, silly, simple-minded people who set this stupid, worthless page up. Get on with your own lives.”

Igoe’s trial at the High Court in Edinburgh heard that she grabbed Martyn’s 9mm pistol and gunned him down in cold blood in January 2009, furious that he had gone out drinking with his mates.

Her brother Paul, 40, got six years for trying to cover up her crime.

Igoe screamed at him as they were taken to the cells after sentencing in April 2010, telling him he should have taken the blame for the murder.

The Barclay and Igoe families hurled abuse at each other across the courtroom and police moved in to stop a fight breaking out.